Contents-November 2009

November 2009

Special Issue - India ’s fossil biota:Current perspectives and emerging approaches

Foreword
India's fossil biota: Current perspectives and emerging approaches Sunil Bajpai and Ashok Sahni	647-648
Articles
Divergence time estimates of mammals from molecular clocks and fossils: Relevance of new fossil finds from India G V R Prasad	649–659
Growth patterns of fossil vertebrates as deduced from bone microstructure: case studies from India S Ray, D Mukherjee and S Bandyopadhyay	661–672
The origin and early evolution of whales: macroevolution documented on the Indian Subcontinent S Bajpai, J G M Thewissen and A Sahni	673–686
The Out-of-India hypothesis: What do molecules suggest? Aniruddha Datta-Roy and K Praveen Karanth	687–697
Tree ring imprints of long-term changes in climate in western Himalaya, India R R Yadav	699–707
Deccan volcanism, the KT mass extinction and dinosaurs G Keller, A Sahni and S Bajpai	709–728
India at the cross-roads of human evolution R Patnaik and P Chauhan	729–747
Deep-sea palaeoceanography of the Maldives Islands (ODP Hole 716A), equatorial Indian Ocean during MIS 12–6 S Sarkar and A K Gupta	749–764
The evolution and distribution of life in the Precambrian eon-Global perspective and the Indian record M Sharma and Y Shukla	765–776
Evidence of Late Palaeocene-Early Eocene equatorial rain forest refugia in southern Western Ghats, India V Prasad, A Farooqui, S K M Tripathi, R Garg and B Thakur	777–797
Biomechanical aspects of bone microstructure in vertebrates: potential approach to palaeontological investigations S Mishra	799–809
Palynoflora from Deccan volcano-sedimentary sequence (Cretaceous-Palaeogene transition) of central India: implications for spatio-temporal correlation B Samant and D M Mohabey	811–823

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